Building a transportation powerhouse has become a key goal of China's future transportation development. Since 2022, many places have focused on major transportation projects during the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the construction of a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, optimized the investment structure, solved investment problems, and gave full play to the role of "stabilizing investment and stable growth" in the transportation field.

In 2022, 102 major engineering projects in the "14th Five-Year Plan" will be constructed with high quality. Accurately and effectively promote the construction of major infrastructure projects in the fields of transportation, water conservancy, logistics, energy, new infrastructure, and people's livelihood.

In March of Yangchun, despite the triple pressure shock of demand contraction, supply shock, and expected weakening, and the impact of the epidemic, major transportation projects during the "14th Five-Year Plan" such as the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, the high-speed railway along the river, and a batch of special railway lines are still accelerating. building.

The reporter learned from the transportation department and related enterprises that since 2022, many places have focused on the construction of major transportation projects during the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the construction of a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, optimized the investment structure, solved investment problems, and gave full play to the "stable investment in the transportation field". , the role of stable growth" ballast stone.

Several projects are included in key construction tasks

The 2022 government work report proposes to actively expand effective investment; focus on major national strategic deployments and the "14th Five-Year Plan" to moderately advance infrastructure investment; build a "comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network".

The "Report on the Implementation of the National Economic and Social Development Plan in 2021 and the Draft National Economic and Social Development Plan in 2022" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan Report") announced on March 13 clearly stated that in 2022, high-quality construction of "ten There are 102 major engineering projects in the Fourth Five-Year Plan. Accurately and effectively promote the construction of major infrastructure projects in the fields of transportation, water conservancy, logistics, energy, new infrastructure, and people's livelihood.

According to the reporter's understanding, in the field of transportation, many projects have been included in the key construction tasks of major transportation projects in 2022, including the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the new western land-sea passage, the high-speed railway along the river, a number of key railway projects and the G318 line of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. Quality transformation; construction of intercity railways and urban (suburban) railways in the urban agglomeration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; research and demonstration of the new Three Gorges waterway; To improve the service level, accelerate the cultivation of regional aviation market and improve international air cargo capacity; promote the construction of national logistics hub and national backbone cold chain logistics base; promote multimodal transport and smart logistics.

Among them, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway is the second railway into Tibet in China and one of the trunk railways in southwest China. It starts from Chengdu, Sichuan Province in the east and ends in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region in the west, with a total length of 1,838 kilometers. Up to now, the Chengya section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway has been put into operation, the Lalin Railway has been completed and opened to traffic, and the Kanglin Railway is planned to be completed and opened to traffic in 2026. The estimated total investment of the new Sichuan-Tibet Railway Ya'an to Nyingchi section alone is as high as 319.8 billion yuan.

The high-speed railway along the river, also known as the "Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed railway", is a high-speed railway in my country connecting Shanghai with Chongqing and Chengdu in Sichuan Province. The main line part of the "Riverside Passage" in the railway passenger passage. At present, the high-speed railway along the river has entered a period of large-scale construction in an all-round way.

On March 14, the official website of the Ministry of Transport introduced that at the construction site of the Yangtze River Delta Railway, the construction of various engineering projects has been accelerated in an all-round way. China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. is responsible for the construction of 13 railway projects and 607 work sites have fully resumed production and production, and more than 30,000 construction workers have invested in railway construction.

In addition, the Hu-Hangzhou high-speed railway is currently sprinting for joint commissioning and joint testing; the main offline works of the Nanyanjiang project have been basically completed, and the construction under the bridge has been transferred to the construction stage of the ballastless track and bridge ancillary facilities; the earthwork of the Shanghai-Suhu Railway subgrade project has been completed. 28%; Jinghuang Railway (Anhui Section) is undergoing track laying, catenary erection, and cable trough penetration construction.

Prominent informatization and intelligent transformation

What is different from the past is that the construction of major transportation infrastructure during the "14th Five-Year Plan" places more emphasis on information technology and intelligent transformation.

At a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council on March 7, Lin Nianxiu, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, introduced that accelerating the construction of new infrastructure is a major decision and deployment made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and it is also the "Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan". ” clearly defined an important task. In terms of integrated infrastructure construction, the use of information technology to promote the intelligent transformation of traditional infrastructure has greatly improved the ability to drive economic transformation and upgrading and ensure the improvement of people's livelihood.

For example, Lin Nianxiu said that in the field of intelligent transportation, the intelligent transformation of ports and expressways has achieved remarkable results, the electronic map is fully covered, the electronic passenger ticket is fully popularized, the utilization rate of express electronic waybill exceeds 90%, and the travel experience of the people and the level of logistics convenience have been greatly improved. .

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport that in terms of informatization and intelligence, in 2022, fixed asset investment in transportation will be specifically invested in key projects of new transportation infrastructure such as smart roads, smart waterways, smart ports, and smart hubs; road and bridge structural health monitoring System and electronic navigation map construction, strengthen the operation monitoring of navigation channels, navigation buildings and shipping hub dams; pilot pilot applications of automatic driving and intelligent shipping; expand the industrial application of Beidou system; green and low-carbon transportation infrastructure, etc.

In terms of informatization and intelligence, the investment in transportation fixed assets in 2022 will be specifically invested in key projects such as smart highways.

Li Yichuan, member of the Party Group of the Department of Transportation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and full-time deputy director of the Railway Construction Office of the Autonomous Region, introduced in an online interview with the Ministry of Transportation on the 8th of this month that the "14th Five-Year Plan" Guangxi Autonomous Region's comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network construction focuses on promoting the overall integration of comprehensive transportation. developing.

He introduced that Guangxi mainly promotes overall integration from four aspects: cross-mode, cross-field, cross-region and cross-industry, promotes the integrated and integrated development of various transportation modes, and promotes the integration of transportation infrastructure network with transportation service network, information network, and energy network. developing.

In accordance with the goal of building a strong transportation country, and with the approval of the Ministry of Transport, Beijing is also striving to make breakthroughs in the construction of an integrated transportation information sharing platform and the development of smart urban rail transit. According to the main points of the pilot task of building a strong transportation country in Beijing, a multi-level rail transit network in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will be built, the connection between the rail networks at all levels will be optimized, and the rail network in the central urban area and key functional areas will be encrypted. Build an efficient and convenient transportation hub with integrated station and city, promote the transfer of rail lines at all levels at the same station, and improve the layout of transportation facilities inside and outside the hub.

At the same time, promote the development of smart city rail transit, build a multi-dimensional passenger service platform, and achieve technological breakthroughs such as "Beidou + 5G + space digitalization" and promote their application. Beijing is striving to improve the intelligence level of rail transit in 3 to 5 years. Significant achievements have been made in the research and development of key technologies such as Beidou and 5G, and the application of equipment. The application of smart trains has achieved obvious implementation results and is gradually promoted.

Local government special bonds are being implemented

At the National Transportation Work Conference in 2022, "effective and stable investment" was listed as one of the "six effective" requirements for the whole year. The meeting called for the best use of financial funds and financial policies to attract private capital to participate in transportation construction.

The above-mentioned "planning report" proposed that in 2022, 3.65 trillion yuan of local government special bonds will be allocated, and 640 billion yuan of investment in the central budget will be arranged. Adhere to the principle of "projects follow the plan, and funds and elements follow the project", accelerate the progress of construction in progress, promptly start a batch of mature projects, strengthen project planning and reserve, and appropriately advance the layout of infrastructure projects.

The reporter learned from the transportation department that many governments have begun or are about to issue special bonds to raise and implement investment funds.

On March 17, Shanxi Province will arrange to issue the second batch of government bonds this year, with 12 bonds totaling 27.677 billion yuan. According to the Shanxi Provincial Department of Finance, 27.677 billion yuan will be invested in five key areas of the province, involving transportation infrastructure, energy, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy, ecological environmental protection, social undertakings, etc. Among them, transportation infrastructure will invest the most, reaching 7.007 billion yuan. , mainly including Taiyuan Wusu Airport Phase III Reconstruction and Expansion Project of 800 million yuan; Ji-Dayuan High-speed Railway Construction Project of 1.485 billion yuan; Fenshi Expressway, Linfu Expressway and Jinzhong City National and Provincial Trunk Road related section projects totaling 2.8 billion yuan and so on.

Transportation plays a leading role in expanding domestic demand, stabilizing growth, and stabilizing investment. The Shandong Provincial Department of Finance also recently revealed that Shandong Province (including Qingdao) has issued all the 141 billion yuan of special bonds issued by the central government in advance. Ecological environmental protection, affordable housing projects and other key areas. Among them, 64.24 billion yuan was used for the construction of 495 "seven networks" projects such as comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, municipal public facilities network, and modern water network.

In February 2022, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Notice on Actively Expanding Effective Investment in Transportation", and planned to do a good job in expanding effective investment in transportation in 2022. The notice requires all localities and units to effectively guarantee the policy elements such as capital and land, give full play to the guiding and leading role of central funds, innovate investment and financing systems and mechanisms, strengthen communication and coordination with relevant departments, and promote the establishment of inter-ministerial, inter-provincial, and provincial-level A mechanism for coordinating and promoting major projects between them has been established to form a joint effort to promote the construction of major engineering projects. Keywords: infrastructure, infrastructure construction, domestic engineering news, planning and investment

Zhang Jianhong, a senior engineer at China International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., said in an interview with reporters that in 2022, the leading role of transportation in expanding domestic demand, stabilizing growth, and stabilizing investment should be effectively brought into play, and major projects should be taken as the starting point to speed up the planning of a batch of For transportation projects of great strategic significance, consensus reached by all parties, mature conditions and strong driving effect, we will continue to accurately fill in the shortcomings and weaknesses, moderately expand the space for transportation investment ahead of schedule, and optimize the supply structure and quality of transportation infrastructure. Editor / Xu Shengpeng